Timo Honkela

Chief Research Scientist, PhD
Docent, computational modeling of cognition and language
Helsinki University of Technology (TKK)

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Research themes

• Head of the Computational Cognitive Systems research group of Adaptive Informatics Research Centre (Department of Information and Computer Science, Helsinki University of Technology, TKK
  • Computational modeling of cognitive systems
  • Multilingual technologies
  • Societal applications of adaptive systems

Recent activities

• Keynote talk "Conceptual Autonomy of Agents" at ICAART'09
• Keynote talk "From quantification of information to quantification of meaning using socio-cognitive computing" at the 2008 IAPR Workshop on Cognitive Information Processing in June 2008.
• Tutorial at the AERFAI Summer School on New Trends in Pattern Recognition for Language Technologies in June 2008.
• Chairing AKRR'08 Conference on Adaptive Knowledge Representation and Reasoning in Porvoo, Finland, 17-19 September 2008
• PC chair of SCAI 2006 (Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence), chair of the special session "Analysing Interdisciplinarity" (introduction) and participating Finnish AI Conference (presentation). See also SCAI 2006 and STeP 2006 photo gallery
• Description of very long term research directions: Language, interpretation and technology: in search of a wise computer (interview, late 2004)

CV and publications

• Curriculum vitae
• List of publications

Courses

2006-2007

• Special Course in Language Technology:
  Finnish-Swedish Machine Translation Challenge (together with Mathias Creutz and Ville Könönen)

2005-2006

• Special Course in Language Technology:
  Statistical Machine Translation (together with Tiina Lindh-Knuutila, Jaakko Väyrynen and Ann Russell)
• Statistical Natural Language Processing (together with Teemu Hirsimäki)

2004-2005

• Principles of Pattern Recognition (together with Kimmo Raivio)
• Special Course in Language Technology:
  Evolution of Language and Cognition: Modeling Perspectives (together with Kari Kanto and Krista Lagus)
• Introduction to Postgraduate Studies in Computer Science (consider also requirements)
• Special Course in Information Science: Multimodal Systems (together with Mikko Kurimo, Krista Lagus, Jorma Laaksonen and Kai Puolamäki)
• Statistical Natural Language Processing (lead by Krista Lagus)

2003-2004

• Statistical Natural Language Processing
• Principles of Pattern Recognition
• Statistical and Adaptive Approaches to Conceptual Modeling

2002-2003

• Statistical Processing of Natural Language

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Contact information

Timo Honkela
Laboratory of Computer and Information Science
Helsinki University of Technology
P.O.Box 5400
FIN-02015 TKK, Finland
timo.honkela at tkk.fi
http://www.cis.hut.fi/tho/